TODAY - July 13


NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: JULY 13

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 30 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 17 hours and 5 minutes – from 04.48 to 21.53.

See more – also in English – about where you are on:  www.dagenslaengde.dk

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called MARGRETHE’s DAY.   It has its name from the Christian girl Margrethe from Anthiocia in the Middle East. A general fell in love with her. But as she only wanted to follow her belief, he sends her to prison. The legend tells that she met a dragon in the prison, which immediately disappeared, when she made the sign of the cross. She was beheaded in 275 AC.

An old Danish weather warning say that if it rains today there will be a lot of rain the rest of the summer, and the harvest risks rottening.

In Belgium the day’s name is SAINT HENRI – after the German-Roman emperor Heinrich II. He lived in the years 973-1024.

TODAY’s EVENT:

1837:  Queen Victoria moves as the first monarch into Buckingham Palace in London.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Horse trading - what is the origin of this expression? And its meaning?

The original word horse-trading came from the big horse markets in the Medieval ages.

In other countries the same expression is referring to cows (Germany) or bullocks (Denmark). Why? Because there were bigger markets in those countries for cows and bullocks than for horses.   In all these markets the trading often took the form of farmers (or more often professional animal traders) discussed – often in a very lively way – the price and at the end made the deal by slamming their right hands together. This was the deal.

Nowadays the expression horse trading is in particular used about political negotiations. It refers to talks where each part often has to reduce its ideological or other demands in order to get a political deal.  Among voters political horse trading is often seen as negative. But in reality it is a necessary and important part of politics in order to get results at the end.

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

French visit - what's the origin of this expression? And what does it mean?

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TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

                  A poet without realism is dead. But the poet who is only a realist                     is also dead.

                  This is said by the Chilean author Pablo Naruda.

2.  Today’s quote:

                  I love treason. But I hate traitors.

                  Who among today's persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

    100 BC:  Julius Caesar  ( died 44 BC )
    1813:  Theophilus Hansen  ( died 1891 )
    1877:  Erik Scavenius  (  died 1962 )
    1913:  Mærsk McKinney Møller  ( died 2012 )
    1922:  Anker Jørgensen  ( died 2016 )
    1942:  Harrison Ford

4.  Famous people died on this day:

    1793:  Jean-Paul Marat  ( 50 years )
    1995:  Godtfred Kirk Christiansen  ( 75 years )  - Founder of LEGO

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com
EUROPE-AT-WORK   www.europe-at-work.be 



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